Trainwreck | Part 1

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Netflix’s Trainwreck takes viewers inside a series of calamities - some large, some small - and tries to bring reason to chaos. This season covers the scandal surrounding Toronto’s Rob Ford in Mayor of Mayhem, and embarks on the 2013 sewage-filled voyage in Poop Cruise. We hear from the people who lived through each fiasco where anything that could have gone wrong…did. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews Shianne Brown and James Ross. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Trainwreck yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Dig deeper into all of your favorite Netflix documentaries and films at Tudum.com. There you can read much more on each of the catastrophes covered in this season of Trainwreck. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca LaVoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.
0:16.0	You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries
0:20.8	and films. On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series,
0:26.7	Train Rec. It's like something that came out of a nightmare movie. The snowball has started to
0:31.5	roll and there's no stopping it. My God, it's chaos. Today, we're talking to directors Cheyenne Brown and James Ross.
0:40.0	Sometimes, little things can spin out of control, creating memorable disasters.
0:45.1	They can be media storms, schemes gone awry, or business plans gone wrong.
0:49.8	Like, when a disabled cruise ship was set adrift for days with no power and overflowing toilets.
0:55.0	I'm telling you, it got bad fast.
0:57.0	I would never expect having to poop in a red bag.
1:00.0	Oh no. Oh no.
1:02.0	Or when the city of Toronto was stunned when its populist mayor resisted calls for his resignation,
1:07.0	even though a video showed him smoking crack with gang members.
1:11.2	I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.
1:15.8	Holy shit.
1:16.8	Holy shit.
1:17.8	Holy crap.
1:19.4	I just cannot believe what the mayor of Toronto just said on live television.
1:24.0	Netflix says a train wreck takes viewers inside a series of calamities, some large, some small,
1:30.0	and tries to bring reason to chaos.
1:32.5	This season covers the scandal surrounding Toronto's Rob Ford in Mayor of Mayhem and
1:37.6	embarked on the 2013 sewage-filled voyage in Poop Cruise.
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